Here’s some basic info. I’m 21, overweight, and it’s almost a new year. I am very new to weight lifting. So far, I just take ZMA and a multivitamen, and am considering Flameout (due to a terrible college diet and distaste for flax), Surge Recovery, Spike for both weights and all night studying and other stuff (don’t ask), and HOT-ROX Extreme so I can finally see my, uh, abs.
Is this fine for someone my age and experience? Should I wait a few years? Any long term effects of using these? Right now, I just want to look less adipose and more Arnold.
[quote]Higher Game wrote:
Here’s some basic info. I’m 21, overweight, and it’s almost a new year. I am very new to weight lifting. So far, I just take ZMA and a multivitamen, and am considering Flameout (due to a terrible college diet and distaste for flax), Surge Recovery, Spike for both weights and all night studying and other stuff (don’t ask), and HOT-ROX Extreme so I can finally see my, uh, abs.
Is this fine for someone my age and experience? Should I wait a few years? Any long term effects of using these? Right now, I just want to look less adipose and more Arnold.[/quote]
IMO yes those are great sups and sounds like you studied up.
BUT the first thing you need to do is nail diet #1 and training #2 and be consistant you cant out supplement a shitty diet and training plan.
The long term effect of those along with the solid diet and training?? Will be you in the best shape of you life.
NAIL that diet and training FIRST and yes those listed supps will aid that progress.
My diet is probably “good” by most standards, but I can’t afford stuff like free range meat, and if I could, I can’t cook it in my dorm room, so fatty acid supplements seem appropriate. I only drink water and I never eat pizza or desserts, but I’m still fatter than most people at college.
I do leg lunges because my squatting form is abysmal, and I don’t want to risk doing deadlifts.
I also wonder if my T levels are permanently retarded, since I ate a lot of tofu at my Asian friend’s house when I was going through puberty (stupid, I know now). I’m extremely short for my family, I have a wimpy “build”, and I can’t even grow a beard, just a little stubble. A little more LBM would really help me out.
Hmm, throwing out major lifts and looking towards supplements is not a good mindset.
So, yeah, don’t worry too much about free range beef and so forth. Standard foods, like meats and vegetables, will do just fine. An Omega-3 supplement like Flameout is a good idea, in general, for most people, for health reasons.
Phill’s advice was pretty much what you should be considering.
Do squats and/or deadlifts. Learn to do them properly. I ate a solide healthy diet in college and you can too. It just takes effort and discipline. I lived in the dorm too.
[quote]Higher Game wrote:
Surely bent over rows will work close to as well as deadlifts, right? My legs definitely are getting stronger from lunges.[/quote]
NO buck up and do the exercises dont avod them start low and learn them they will; pay off.
#1- How do I squat without standing on the tips of my toes? My form breaks down early, so I don’t really get a heavy lift the way I get from lunges. I don’t have the body build of a 2 year old, so squatting feels awkward.
#2- Which HOT-ROX would you guys recommend? What’s the trade off between the two?
[quote]Higher Game wrote: #1- How do I squat without standing on the tips of my toes? My form breaks down early, so I don’t really get a heavy lift the way I get from lunges. I don’t have the body build of a 2 year old, so squatting feels awkward.[/quote]
Drop the loads and practice, sit back not down, maybe try a lower bar placement, strecth your calve, hip flexors, and glutes. Keep head and chest High upper back tight.
above all keep doing them with the above stuff as well and it will come.
[quote] #2- Which HOT-ROX would you guys recommend? What’s the trade off between the two?[/quote]
I would go witht the Extreme it just a more well rounded complete Fat burner, the differences can be learned in there product threads. Both great, one a corvet the other a ferarri.
